Vaccarizzo Albanese is a village and comune

Comune

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in the province of Cosenza

Province of Cosenza

The Province of Cosenza is a province in the Calabria region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Cosenza.It has an area of 6,650 km², and a total population of 733,797 . It is the biggest Calabrian Province...

 in the Calabria

Calabria

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 region of southern Italy

Italy

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The town is bordered by Acri

ACRI

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, San Cosmo Albanese

San Cosmo Albanese

San Cosmo Albanese is a village and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.There is a majority ethnic Arbëresh in the village. The founders of the settlement were christian Albanians who migrated to Italy after Albania's resistance against the Ottoman empire...

 and San Giorgio Albanese

San Giorgio Albanese

San Giorgio Albanese is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.- Language :...

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Language

Vaccarizzo Albanian

Vaccarizzo Albanian

Vaccarizzo Albanian is a subdialect of the Arbëresh dialect of the Albanian language. Spoken in the villages of Vaccarizzo Albanese and San Giorgio Albanese in southern Italy by approximately 3,000 people Vaccarizzo Albanian has retained many archaic features of the Tosk dialect, on which the...

, the Arbëresh dialect of the Albanian language

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

 that is spoken spoken in the villages of Vaccarizzo Albanese and San Giorgio Albanese

San Giorgio Albanese

San Giorgio Albanese is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.- Language :...

 in southern Italy

Italy

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 by approximately 3,000 people Vaccarizzo Albanian has retained many archaic features of the Tosk dialect, on which the Standard Albanian is based.